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Microsoft revealed today that Windows on ARM (WOA) PCs are still under development, but that PC makers should ship them at the same time as PCs designed for x86 / 64 chipsets. Windows 8 ARM will include a built-in version of Office 15 with access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint,...

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Computers are normally limited by the fixed nature of their chipsets: once the silicon is out of the factory, its capabilities are forever locked in. The City College of New York and University of California Berkeley have jointly developed a technique that could break chips free of these prisons...

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The Wall Street Journal made waves yesterday. Citing unnamed sources, the Journal reported Apple is ordering larger touchscreens for the next iPhone. Now, citing its own unnamed sources, Reuters somewhat confirmed the reported. Prepare yourself, iPhone diehards. All signs point to a larger iPhone. The thought of a larger iPhone...

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It's a big day for open source fans now that NVIDIA, the last member of the "big three" chip makers with AMD and Intel, has signed on with the Linux foundation. The company has previously kept the system at arms length, with users relying on reverse-engineering to get things...

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Samsung has been doing their damnedest to keep their next Galaxy phone under wraps, but there’s one thing they just couldn’t keep quiet about — the processor. The Korean electronics giant announced not long ago that their new 1.4 GHz Exynos 4 Quad chipset would be the one to power...

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Intel showed off its Windows 8 hybrid tablet / ultrabook prototype at its Developer Forum (IDF) in Beijing last week and fresh details are emerging about the hardware and its pricing. Despite being the talking point of CES this year, ultrabooks are slowly merging into tablet hybrids thanks to...

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In 2009, Tristan Schaap received the chance of a lifetime when he was offered an internship by Apple’s Platform Technologies Group. During his time interning with the company, Schaap was part of a team that was secretly attempting to port Mac OS X to the ARM architect, according to...

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Forget Apple’s Facetime. If there’s one app that shows the potential in the mobile video chat market, it’s Tango. Almost one year since its last round of $42 million, the cross-platform video chat company Tango announced that it has raised another $40 million in a third round of funding...

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Broadcom's taken the chance to bust out some killer new internals for Android phones here at MWC. The new range of SoCs are optimized for Ice Cream Sandwich, based on single or dual-core 40-nanometer ARM Cortex A9s. The BCM21654G has a 1GHz CPU, integrated HSPA modem and VGA video...

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Broadcom might have unveiled a bevy of 802.11ac chipsets back at CES, however when it came to availability the chipmaker played more than coy as to when they'd sashay their way out of developmental labs and into the hands of actual consumers. Fast-forward to MWC and the chipmaker's isn't...

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Has the anticipation of finding out when Intel's Chief River Ivy Bridge chipsets might finally become available got you all hot and bothered? Well, here's something to cool you down a bit, for now. A product roadmap from Lenovo explicitly lists June 5th as the official on-sale date for...

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If the Apple rumor machine is to be believed then we might soon see a lighter, skinnier and bigger brother of the current Macbook Airs in the market. A report from CPU Central, a blog covering computer processors, points to the April 8 launch of a new range of...

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Motorola officially announced the much-leaked Atrix HD this morning, bringing the new handset to AT&T's LTE network. At first blush, the new phone's something of a Droid RAZR / RAZR Maxx hybrid: it has a very similar Kevlar back, and its 1780mAh battery and 8.4mm-thick body both fall somewhere...

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If the trio of slabs ZTE announced earlier this week weren't enough for you, sit tight, the outfit just announced it's bringing a total of eight new phones to Barcelona next week. The new handsets will reportedly flaunt multi-core processors, LTE radios and the latest versions of the Aneroid...

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In an attempt to reduce its reliance on third-party processor makers, HTC has reportedly signed a memorandum of cooperation with ST-Ericsson to develop its own mobile chips, following the same route as its rivals Apple and Samsung. According to a report by the China Times, HTC will develop a dedicated...

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Last night, major retailers across the US began offering Intel Ivy Bridge processors along with Ivy Bridge optimized Intel Z77 motherboards (Sandy Bridge H61, H67 and z68 MoBos/Chipsets are still Ivy compatible). You can even find significant discounts ($50/off at Amazon above) already. As TonyMacx86 notes, to build a hackintosh with Ivy Bridge...

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The first motherboards with Ivy Bridge-compatible Panther Point chipsets have been detailed by AnandTech and The Tech Report. The sites looked at motherboards from ASRock, Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, ECR, and Biostar. Although perhaps not quite as interesting as the new Ivy Bridge processors themselves, there are still some big...

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Things are different on Planet Intel. Over there, Thunderbolt drives and peripherals are as cheap and abundant as artificial intelligences in a Culture novel, so the population's attention has already turned to what comes next. Some are prepared to wait for a promised 50Gbps optical interconnect by 2015, but...

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Not exactly groundbreaking news here -- Clearwire's impending LTE TDD network is happening, regardless -- but it's always good to have the weight of a mainstay like Qualcomm behind you. Particularly when you're pushing uphill, into the wind, against far more established 4G networks from AT&T and Verizon Wireless....

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Hewlett-Packard is lightening up — and slapping a new name on a line of laptops. The PC maker has introduced new Ultrabooks that challenge the weight and size of its earlier entrants into the market. And it has also unveiled a new line of “Sleekbooks” that undercut the price of...

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Nokia is currently preparing two new Windows Phone handsets for AT&T, according to sources close to the company's plans. Nokia Prodigy is expected to be one of Microsoft's "superphones" for Windows Phone 8, due later this year, and the AC/DC will be a mid-range handset — both will launch...

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The puzzle pieces are already falling into place, one at a time. After announcing Qualcomm as the exclusive chipset provider for upcoming Windows Phone 8 handsets, we didn't get any word on which models would be used. Fortunately, Qualcomm reps have confirmed to us that all new devices will...

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Intel released their 2012Q2 earnings today, reporting revenue of $13.5 billion, up 5% from last quarter. PC market growth rose 3% to $8.7 billion. Intel blamed the slow-down on users waiting for Windows 8 before investing in new hardware. The Data Center group saw revenue of $2.8 billion. Intel’s earnings...

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Nokia, Samsung, HTC, and Huawei will ship the first round of Windows Phone 8 devices running on Qualcomm chipsets, but it appears that Acer is also interesting in making another Windows Phone handset. After shipping its low-end Allegro Windows Phone in Europe last year, Acer spokesperson Chen Guowei has...

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An updated “micro dock” would make room for bigger batteries, 4G radios, and other components far more important to the iPhone and iPad in a PC free world. We’ve heard that Apple is getting ready to ditch the dock connector as it’s currently sized and implemented on iPods, iPhones,...

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The Android software ecosystem has finally consolidated around one primary version. The problem? It is last year's version. As of April 2, 63.7% of Android devices are running version 2.3, giving Gingerbread a comparable penetration to how many users have downloaded and are using iOS 5. While the ecosystem has...

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Mozilla just blasted Microsoft for blocking third-party browsers in the "classic" mode of its Windows 8 tablets. Windows 8 tablets will run on a different type of processor, called ARM, than desktops use. The tablets will have Microsoft's new tile-based "Metro" interface, but also allow you to access a classic...

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Following reports from late last year indicating that Apple would be switching back to NVIDIA for graphics chips in its next MacBook Pro update, SemiAccurate now reports that NVIDIA's issues with GPU production are apparently leading Apple to rely more heavily on Intel's integrated graphics. Apple has reportedly been ordering...